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MIDSHIPMAN , the See also:title in the See also:British and See also:American navies of the " See also:young gentlemen " who are serving in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to qualify themselves to hold a See also:commission as See also:lieutenant. The See also:English midshipman was originally a See also:petty officer, one of the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew under the immediate orders of the See also:boatswain. After the restoration of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles II., in 166o, the king and his See also:brother, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Duke of See also:York, See also:lord high See also:admiral, decided to See also:train See also:officers for the See also:sea service. They therefore decided to send a volunteer to each See also:ship of a See also:squadron in commission, with a " See also:letter of service," which instructed the admirals and captains that the See also:bearer was to be shown " such kindness as you shall See also:judge See also:fit for a See also:gentleman, both in accommodating him in your ship and in furthering his improvement." He was to receive the pay of a midshipman, and one midshipman less was to be See also:borne in the ship. Until 1729 the young gentlemen who entered the British See also:navy were known as " king's letter boys." In that See also:year the See also:system was altered. A school, known as the See also:naval See also:academy, was founded at See also:Portsmouth in which See also:forty lads were to be trained for the sea service. In 1773 the school, having proved unsatisfactory, was reorganized and the number of boys to be trained there increased from forty to seventy. In 18o6 it was again reorganized, under the name of the naval See also:college, and was finally suppressed in 1837, when the practice of training the boys under instructors in the See also:ships was introduced. A See also:special school was re-established in 1857, and was finally placed in the " Britannia." In the meantime the number of midshipmen had increased far beyond one for a ship. A lineof-See also:battle ship in the 18th See also:century carried as many as twenty-four, and the title had come to be confined entirely to those who were being trained as officers. The immense See also:majority of officers of the British navy never passed through the academy or the college. They entered the ships directly as " captains' servants " or " See also:volunteers," and were rated midshipman, if there was a vacancy, at the See also:age of fifteen. As they were expected to learn See also:navigation, they were instructed by the See also:master, and at the age of seventeen were supposed to be qualified to be masters' mates. To-See also:day the midshipman is the officer of the British and American navies who has passed through the
preliminary See also:schools and has been appointed to a ship. The See also:French See also:equivalent Is aspirant, and other See also:European navies use that name, or See also:cadet.
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